Corrections and clarifications: An earlier story version misstated the date the Blue Lives Matter display was posted.

It’s National Police Week, but at least one college, a show of support did not go over without a problem.

A “Blue Lives Matter” display at Dartmouth College that went up May 12 in a student center was removed and replaced with Black Lives Matter posters, according to The Dartmouth, the New Hampshire school’s student newspaper. Members of the school-sponsored organization Dartmouth College Republicans created the original display.

“Not only did they replace our billboard with their display, they also replaced all of the other billboards in the student center with Black Lives Matter posters and posted pictures of our club members’ faces with ‘Sons of Old Dartmouth’ written over it,” Michelle Knesbach, president of Dartmouth College Republicans, told Foxnews.com.

The Blue Lives Matter movement goes back to at least 2014. Blue Lives Matter NYC says the movement was created to help law enforcement officers and their families during times of need, according to its website.

The incident was decried by many as an attempt to stop free speech.

In a statement posted Wednesday, the activist organization Concerned Students of Dartmouth noted that “we acknowledge that many of you are concerned about the question of free speech. However, one hundred students’ disapproval for ‘Blue Lives Matter’ does not constitute a disregard for free speech, nor does it condemn policemen who have died in the line of duty. What it does constitute is a concern for anti-blackness on this campus and nationwide.

“Movements like ‘All Lives Matter’ and ‘Blue Lives Matter’ are created purposefully as counter-narratives to deny the relevance of the original movement, ‘Black Lives Matter.’ Regardless of intention, displaying these slogans ignores the context in which ‘Black Lives Matter’ has arisen,” the statement said.

Campus administration did not address the incident until later that weekend. On Sunday, a statement signed by the college’s president, provost, vice provost and dean was emailed to students. In it, the actions of the protesters were deemed “an unacceptable violation of freedom” and a form of vandalism. The statement also referred to a situation that occurred earlier in the year, in which a Black Lives Matter display was defaced, as another incident of vandalism.

National Police Week is officially May 15- May 21.

Anjali Bhatis a student at University of California, Davis and a USA TODAY collegiate correspondent.